PreviewsIssue 86, Spring/Summer 2025
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Dead Writers
Stories
Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, Naben Ruthnum
Four writers collaborate in this macro-narrative of interlocking themes, as each explores the concept of the “bargain” in novella-length stories – stories of a reluctant biographer, a journalist, a haunted tourist, and a colonial poet-doctor – all dealing with existential dread, tainted pasts, and uncertain futures.
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Dear Algorithm
The Wed Luck Show
Michael Afenfia
Two sisters, one in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and the other in Saskatoon, Canada, have big announcements to make to their parents about marriage and finding love. While the older sister, Mondi, appears unsure of where she stands between convention and what she desires, her younger sister Yola is all set for an extreme adventure that threatens to tear their family apart.
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Decolonizing Public Places
Reclaiming meeting spaces through acts of resistance and resurgence; The City Project, Book 3
Alex Judge
Lavoie explores the history of Indigenous resistance within Winnipeg since Idle No More in 2012 and how that protest played a pivotal role in the Indigenous cultural resurgence of reclaiming space within the city. As public space is reclaimed, Lavoie discovers how this newfound inclusion is shaping relationships within Indigenous communities, as well as how this movement connects Indigenous nations with their co-existing treaty partners.
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Dispatches from the Threshold
Tenant Power in Times of Crisis
Rae Baker (Editor), Alexander Ferrer (Editor)
Bringing together activists, scholars, and legal practitioners directly involved in tenant organizing, this book contextualizes and catalogues the traction and tensions of the movement across 17 cities in five countries, connecting housing justice to struggles against criminalization, surveillance, and policing, and to debates about social reproduction, precarity, organized labour, abolitionist praxis, and political strategy.
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Dog and Moon
Kelly Shepherd
Drawing upon dreams, creative writing texts, mythology, nature, and memory, and using an adapted free-verse ghazal form that focuses on the leaps and gaps between thoughts and moments, these poems “don’t bloom, they spill. They overflow.”
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Downed Hearts
Catherine Banks
Ten days after a jetliner goes down in the ocean, fisherman Aaron is mentally fragile from his role in recovering bodies, and from dealing with his son with special needs leaving home to be educated off the island. He finds a young mute woman, who may or may not be a survivor, but who, together with his neighbour’s artistic practice, provides healing for Aaron.
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Elections in Canada
People, Players, and Processes
Tamara A. Small (Editor), Royce Koop (Editor)
Drawing on a wide variety of perspectives, this book examines the intricate relationships between voter preferences, historical and legal frameworks, campaign dynamics, political figures, and media platforms to provide politics students and instructors with a comprehensive overview of both contemporary and historical Canadian elections.
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Elements of Indigenous Style
A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
Gregory Younging, Warren Cariou (Editor)
A new editorial team continues the conversation started by the late Younging in this new edition, which includes five new chapters covering author-editor relationships, identity and community affiliation, Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer identities, Indigenous citation practices, sensitivity reading, the representation of Indigenous languages and oral narratives in print, emerging issues in the digital world, and more.
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Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century
Meanings, Measures, and Representations
Amy Shaw (Editor), Lynn Kennedy (Editor)
This book examines the lively and complex 19th- and early 20th-century debates about the meaning of fat and its varied implications for health, beauty, and class status. Divided into four sections, the book addresses epistemologies, artistic and literary representations, the turn toward measurement, and the connections to imperialism and colonialism.
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Favourite Daughter
Morgan Dick
Alternating between the perspectives of half-sisters Arlo and Mickey, this debut novel shows how their father has had an impact on them throughout their lives and even after his death. Their father’s will leaves all of his millions to Mickey, his abandoned daughter, but only on condition that she sees Arlo, his younger cherished daughter, for therapy sessions – what unfolds reveals the cracks in their lives and possible ways they may fill them together.
